Adjustable level for spinning frames



Oct. 14 1924.

A. M. GUILLET ADJUSTABLE LEVEL FOR .SPINNING FRAMES Filed Jan. 13. 1923 Patented (lot. 14, 1924 UNITED STATES ALBERT M. GUILLET, OF CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA.

ADJUSTABLE LEVEL FOR SPINNING FRAMES.

Application filed January 13, 1923.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT M. GUILLET, a citizen of the United States, residing at Charlotte, in the county of Mecklenburg and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in Adjustable Levels for Spinning Frames, of which the following is a specification. reference being had to the accompanying draw ings.

This invention relates to means for truing up and leveling spinning frames, and particularly to leveling devices adapted to be applied to the angle iron roller beams or rails which support the roll stands and thread boards of the machine or adapted to be applied to any other pair of parallel members designed to be normally disposed in a truly horizontal plane.

Spinning frames are relatively long and include relatively long rails or beams which are liable to sag or to extend either above or below a proper horizontal plane due to sinking or deformation of the floor upon which the machine stands. These machines are, therefore, quite liable to get out of correct horizontal position and ever now and then have to be releveled. This work at present is accomplished by the use of plumb lines, straight edges, ordinary spirit levels, etc., and is relatively diflicult to perform accurately and quickly.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a leveling device of the character stated which is particularly adapted for indicating rails or beams: which are out of proper horizontal position and which will permit of relatively rapid and accurate work in re-adjusting these frames and leveling them, the device being particularly adapted for leveling the machine transversely to its length so that two parallel rails may be disposed on the same horizontal plane.

A further object is to provide a transverse leveling device of this character including a transversely extending level-carrying bar, legs adjustable toward or from each other and supporting this bar, these legs having feet which are so mounted upon the legs that they may be independently adjustable into or out of a. horizontal plane so that the feet may conform to and rest flat upon warped rails or beams.

4 A still further object in this connection is to so form the feet that they may be ad- Serial No. 612,372.

- justed into exact parallelism to the plane of the upper surface of the transversely extendingbar and may be locked in this position against any chance of movement so that when the lateral rails have been longitudinally adjusted into correct horizontal position the device may be quickly shifted longitudinally along the rails and will properly indicate whether the machine is transversely horizontal.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a transverse. sectional View through a. spinning frame, showing my leveling device applied thereto;

Figure 2 is an end elevation of the levelingdevice and showing in dotted lines that the feet may be shifted into angular position with relation to the body of the gauge;

Figure 3 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view on the line 33 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a fragmentary section through the means for supporting one end of the level 28;

Figure 5 is a fragmentary section showing the means for supporting the opposite end of the level 28.

Referring to these drawings, 10 designates a tranverse beam which is illustrated as being U-shaped in cross section so as to provide the downwardly extending side flanges 11. This beam is open at its ends and the edges of the side Walls or flanges 11 are downwardly and outwardly beveled at 12. Adjacent its ends the horizontal web of the beam is longitudinally slotted at 14, the margins of this slot being defined by an upwardly extending rib 15. Both ends of this bar 10 are alike.

Coacting with this bar and disposed between the flanges 11 are the legs 16. Each leg has a width equal to the distance between the flanges 11 and the legs are preferably U-shaped in cross section. Each leg has a base 17 which fits against the under side of the horizontal web of the beam 10 and this base portion 17 is provided with an interiorly screw-threaded hub 18. A clamp screw 19 passes through each slot 14 and into the corresponding screw-threaded hub 18 so that the leg may be clamped in any longitudinally adjusted position. Each screw, of course, is provided with a knurled head or equivalent means whereby the screw may be which the post passes, and on each operated. Each leg includes a web 21 which extends vertically downward at right angles to the length of the bar, this web having a width at its upper end equal to the width of the space between the side Walls 11 and immediately below these side walls having a width equal to the distance between the outer surface of the side walls so that shoulders 21 are formed on each side of the web which bear against the lower edges of the flanges 11. Web 21 upon its outer face is formed to provide a recessed portion 22, the upper'wall 23 of which is circular, this circlebeing concentric to a screw opening inthe web, through which passes the clamping, screw 24.

Disposed. against the vertical face of the web 21 anddisposedin the recess 22 is the vertical web 25 forming part of a horizontal foot 26. The screw 24: passes through this web 25, and it will be seen, therefore, that the ,foot 26 may be oscillated upon the pivot formed by the screw 2st through a relatively greatangle. Preferably the plate or web 25 is perforated at one point and the web 21 is provided with a corresponding perforation so that when the foot 26 is in a position parallel to the plane of the upper surface of the web 13'of bar 10 a pin 27 may be inserted through these coincident perforations and the foot locked in this position.

Mounted upon the upper face of the web 13 is a spirit level 28 of any suitable or usual character, this spirit level being supported at one end by means of a screw-threaded post 29 which has screw-threaded engagement with a bore 30 in the Web 13. The cap 3;1 of the spirit level at this end is provided with an outwardly extendinglug 82, through side of this cap are disposed the nuts 33. The upper end of'the post is slotted so as to receive a screw driver, and by turning this post this end of the level may be raised "or lowered. The web 13 at the opposite end of the level is formed with an upwardly extending boss 34 whose upper face is rounded or convex in shape and a lug 35 at this end of the spirit level has its under face concavely recessed so as to {it on this boss. The under face of the lug 35 is formed with a concave seat 36, and passing through this seat, through the lug 35 and having screwthreaded engagement with the boss is a screw 37, the head of which is convexly curved to fit the seat 36. By this means the bubble glass 28 may be adjusted into or out of parallelism with the upper face of the webl3.

Each of the feet 26 also carry spirit levels 28. It will be noted from Figure 2 that thesefeet extend at right angles to the axis of the bar 10 and that, therefore, the spirit levels or bubble glasses 28 carried by the feet are disposed at rightangles to the spirit level 28.

These spirit levels are mounted in the same manner as the main spirit level or bubble glass 28 so that their adjustment may be corrected from time to time.

in the use of this device the feet are disposed npon separated parallel rails or beams of the spinning machine as, for instance, the beams A; which support the roll stands and thread boards and the leveling device is shifted longitudinally of the machine to determine whether at every point the machine is transversely horizontal. This transverse horizontality of the machine may be determined, of course, by the bubble within the bubble glass 28'. Inasmuch as the rails or beams upon which this leveling device rests are liable to be warped so that,

for instance, both of these rails or beams will be inclined relatively to the longitudinal axis of the machine either in the same direction or in opposite directions, it is ob vious that in order for the device to indi: cate the transverse level of the spinning-unachinc that the feet should be adjustable so as to fit flat against rails or beams which may be warped so that both ends of the leveling device will have a full and proper bearing upon the beams or rails.- It is to this end that the feet are made oscillatably adjustable on the legs.

If itbe desired to adjust the rails or beams into a longitudinally horizontal plane, the feet will then be set into aposition so these feet are exactly parallel tothe plane of the upper face of the v.veb18 and locked in this position by meanso-f the.

pins 27 and then the device is shifted over the spinning frame and the feet of the.

Sampsons or equivalent elements are adjusted until the bubble glasses 28 indicate-- the longitudinal horizontality of the rails or beams and the bubbleglass 28 indicates the transverse horizontality of the two rails or beams. Thisdevice, it willbe seem-may be readily shifted from end to end of the spinning frame and inconnection with the straightening gauge which forms the subject-matter of ace-pending application filed of even date herewith. The spinning frame may be readily adjusted, leveled and trued so as to put it into the best possible condition for proper work and do away with the loss incident to machines which arenotproperly horizontal both longitudinally and transversely.

It will be noted. that the beam 10 is raised 1 above the level of the feet 26. This permits this beam to pass over parts of the spinning frame which are disposed between the rails or beams upon which the feet 26 rest as, for instance, over the lower creelboards if the device is used in connection with the roller beams of the spinning frameV While I have illustrated a particular construction of level which I have found inactual practice to be perfectly satisfactory for the purpose intended, I do not wish to be limited to these details as it is obvious that many minor changes might be made in the arrangement and proportion of the parts without departing from the spirit of the invention. It will be noted that the legs 21 are longitudinally adjustable upon the member 10 so as to accommodate the device to frames of different widths there th e being a number of different frames on market in which the widths differ,

I claim 1. A leveling device of the character described comprising a leveling bar having upon it a spirit level extending longitudinally of the bar, downwardly extending legs at the ends of the bar, the legs being mounted upon the bar for longitudinal adjustment, and feet extending transversely the longitudinal axis of the bar, and spirit levels carried by said feet and extending at right angles to the spirit level carried by the bar.

2. A leveling device of the character de scribed comprising a leveling bar and carrying upon it a spirit level extending longi tudinally of the bar, a downwardly extending leg at each end of the bar, foot carried by each leg and each foot having axis extending transversely to the longitudinal axis of the bar, and spirit levels can ried by said feet and extending at right angles to the spirit level carried by the bar, the feet being pivotally mounted for independent movement in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis of the bar.

3. A leveling device of the character described comprising a leveling bar carrying upon it a spirit level extending longitudinally of the bar, a downwardly extending leg at each end of the bar, the legs being longitudinally adjustable toward or from each other upon the bar, feet, each having its longitudinal axis extending transversely to the longitudinal axis of the bar, each foot being pivotally mounted upon its respective leg for oscillation transverse to the longitudinal axis of the bar, the pivotal axis of each foot extending parallel to the axis of the bar whereby the feet may be disposed in angular relation to each other and to the upper face of the bar, and a spirit level carried upon each foot and extending at right angles to the spirit level carried by the bar.

a. A leveling device of the character described comprising a leveling bar having a longitudinally disposed bubble glass, legs engaging the bar and adjustable longitudinally in relation thereto, feet carried by said legs and extending transversely to the length of the bar, and bubble glasses carried by said feet.

5. A leveling device of the character detn av scribed comprising a leveling bar having a longitudinally disposed bubble glass, legs engaging the bar adjacent to the ends there of and adjustable longitudinally in relation thereto, feet carried by said legs and extending transversely to the length of the bar, and bubble glasses carried by said feet, said feet being pivoted to the legs by pivots extending parallel to the length of the bar and at right angles to the length of the feet whereby the feet may be independently canted.

6. A leveling device of the eharacter described comprising a leveling bar, a spirit level carried thereon, legs disposed at the ends of the bar and having downwardly extending portions formed with recesses upon their outer faces, feet having upstanding portions fitting in said recesses, the feet extending transversely to the length of the bar, clamping screws extending through the upstanding portions of the feet and into said legs and constituting pivots upon which the feet may be oscillated and also constituting means whereby the feet may be clamped in adjusted position, and a spirit level mounted on each foot extending at right angles to the spirit level on the bar.

7. A leveling device of the character described comprising a bar ti -shaped in cross section to provide downwardly depending flanges, a spirit level mounted upon the upper face of the bar and extending longitudinally thereof, legs connected to the ends of the bar, said legs having portions fitting between the flanges of the bar and slidable longitudinally of the bar, means for clamping the legs in adjusted longitudinal position on said bar, and feet carried by the legs.

.8. A leveling device of the character described comprising a bar U-shaped in cross section to provide downwardly depending flanges, a spirit level mounted upon the upper face of the bar and extending longitudinally thereof, a leg connected to each end of the bar, each leg having a portion fitting between the flanges of the bar and slidable longitudinally of the bar, means for clamping the legs in adjusted position nearer to or further from each other, a foot carried by each leg, the ends of each foot extending transversely to the axis of the U-shaped bar, clamp screws, one for each foot and leg extending parallel to the axis of the bar and at right angles to the axis of the corresponding foot and extending through the foot and leg respectively, and a spirit level carried by each foot and extending at right angles to the spirit level on the bar.

9. A level of the character described eomprising a bar having laterally depending, parallel flanges, a spirit level mounted upon the upper face of the bar and extending longitudinally thereof, the upper face of the bar adjacent its ends being longitudinally slotted, a leg disposed at each end of the bar and each comprising a horizontal portion fitting against the under face of the bar, and a vertical portion fitting between the lateral flanges of the bar, the vertical' portion of each leg below the side flanges of the bar having a width equal to the full width of the bar whereby to provide lateral shoulders bearing against the lower edges of the lateral flanges of the bar, a clarnp screw passing through each slot and engag ing its respective leg whereby the legs may be held in adjusted position, and feet carried by the legs and each having its axis extending at right angles to the axis of the bar, and a spirit level carriedby each leg.

10. A levelling device of the character described comprising a bar havin a spirit level extending longitudinally o the bar, vertical legs coacting with the'bar, the outer taoe of each leg being recessed and the upper wall oi the recess being concavel'y curved, a foot at each end of the bar, each foot having an upstanding portion fitting in said recess, the upper edge ofthe u'pstanding portion fitting the conc-ave wall of the recess, a clamp screw extending through said upstanding portion of the foot and into the leg whereby to constitute a pivot for leg,

the adjustment of the foot relative to vthe the correspondingportion of the leg being ioriued' with co ncident perforations adapt ed, when the foot is disposed in a plane l parallel to the upper surface of the bar, to

receive a locking pin, and a level carried by each foot and extending at right angles forated lug at each end, a screw-threaded.

pin extending through the perforated lug on one end andhaving screw-threaded engagement with the bar, two nuts threaded on said pin engaging respectively on each side of the corresponding lug, a boss formed on the bar beneath the opposite lug of the bubble glass, the boss having a convex upper face, the lug being co-ncaved upon its lower face to fit the upper face of the boss,

and a screw passing through the, lug and into the boss and adapted to hold the lug upon the bar whereby the bubble glass may the upstandin portion of the foot. and

be tilted to bring it into proper adjustment;

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature. H r .e 1,

ALBERT M. GUILLET. 

